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Graveyard

Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathcusack Or Rathcorrig
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
52.58050, -7.17847
SMR number
KK024-059002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On brow of gentle W-facing slope with good views from S-W-N. The River Nore flows roughly N-S c. 300m to the W. A public road runs roughly N-S c. 10m to the E. There is a medieval church (KK024-059001-) centrally placed within the graveyard. A circular area (overall diam. c. 63m; int. diam. c. 50m) enclosed by a stone wall and entered from the E side via a gate with capped piers on either side. The gravestones are concentrated in the W half of the graveyard and none are earlier in date than the late 18th century. The earliest headstone noted by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 488) dated to 1723. The stone wall enclosing the graveyard was built on the fosse of the original ecclesiastical enclosure (KK024-059003-), the internal bank of this enclosure being retained within the stone wall of the graveyard.

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KK024-059001-_01 Google Earth street view image from the SE, May 2009
KK024-059002-_01 Google Earth street view image from the NE, May 2009

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 29 September 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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